during Canada Border Disturbances, at the Camp of Instruction near Trenton, N. J., and in New York city, 1841‑46, — as Chief Commissary of Subsistence of the Army commanded by Major-General Taylor, in the War with Mexico, 1847‑48, being engaged in the Battle of Buena Vista, Feb. 22‑23, 1847, — at St. Louis, Mo., 1849‑50, — as Chief